Started another one

It'll be a five string based on the design I posted a few weeks ago. Ash body, with a walnut top and a spalted elm inlayed fake pickguard. I think I'm going to try my hand at some wooden pickup covers for this one.

It'll be a five string based on the design I posted a few weeks ago. Ash body, with a walnut top and a spalted elm inlayed fake pickguard. I think I'm going to try my hand at some wooden pickup covers for this one.

I was looking in some books like Grizzly, and the have kits for your router to do perfect inlay. You basically route your cavity using a template and then put a spacer on your router and route your inlay. I'm sure it a little more complex than that, but you get the picture. I'm sure people do it without templates and kits also.

I was looking in some books like Grizzly, and the have kits for your router to do perfect inlay. You basically route your cavity using a template and then put a spacer on your router and route your inlay. I'm sure it a little more complex than that, but you get the picture. I'm sure people do it without templates and kits also.

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It's the other way around. Using a reverse template where you cut from the inside you put the bushing on a collar to route the opening in your work piece and using the same template you then remove the bushing to route the inlay.

Great design mate, can't wait to see it finished... hint hint...
Awesome looking thing though, it's funny, how the looks can make you enjoy playing it more and therefore play better. I think you'd be playing like a true cat with this!

Great design mate, can't wait to see it finished... hint hint...
Awesome looking thing though, it's funny, how the looks can make you enjoy playing it more and therefore play better. I think you'd be playing like a true cat with this!

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Thanks, but I hope that somebody else will be playing it and enjoying it.